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Legal dissonance : the interaction of criminal law and customary law in Papua New Guinea /
"Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders -- customary law and state law -- [each] undermine the other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can help explain the low level of personal security found in many parts of the country. It is shown that a lack of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Papua New Guinea, legal pluralism, and law and economics
- Customary law and the state criminal law
- Historical overview of the state, criminal law and customary law
- Empirical study of the sanction of wrongs in the New Guinea islands
- Legal dissonance in Papua New Guinea
- Past reforms that failed
- Conclusion: reforming the prosecution process.